Professor David Tuckett talks to Dr Elizabeth Allison of the Psychoanalysis Unit of University College, London about Ella Sharpe's classical clinical lectures given regularly at the Institute of Psychoanalysis and published in the International Journal. Films about 10 key papers in British psychoanalysis discussed by 10 eminent British analysts are currently in production - The Technique of Psycho-Analysis: I.
The analyst, The Technique of Psycho-Analysis: III. Survey of defence-mechanisms in general character-traits and in conduct: evaluation of pre-conscious material and The Technique of Psycho-Analysis: V: anxiety: outbreak and resolution

An interview with Dana Birksted-Breen - current Editor-in-Chief of the International
Journal of Psychoanalysis - about the difficulties in writing a psychoanalytic paper for
publication. One must confront with the complex task of finding words for linking clinical experience with theory, and of coping with one's own anxieties about submitting
the paper to the Journal reviewers.

Public engagement event at the Freud Museum London & funded by the UK National
Institute of Health Research, to inform the general public about Hysteria – now known as
conversion disorder or functional neurological disorder – and assess if Freud’s
theories, specifically those in his seminal work ‘Studies on Hysteria’ are still
relevant today. Initially there is a pair of lectures giving an introduction ‘Is Freud’s
book Studies on Hysteria still relevant?’ – Debate aimed at the general public. Chaired
by Dr Tim Nicholson (Institute of Psychiatry / Maudsley Hospital, London). Motion
proposed by Richard Kanaan (Professor of Neuropsychiatry, Melbourne University) & Stephanie Howlett (Psychotherapist, Sheffield, UK). Motion opposed by Mark Edwards
(Professor of Neurology, St George’s London) & Alan Carson (Senior Lecturer in
Neuropsychiatry, Edinburgh University).

Public engagement event at the Freud Museum London & funded by the UK National
Institute of Health Research, to inform the general public about Hysteria – now known as
conversion disorder or functional neurological disorder – and assess if Freud’s
theories, specifically those in his seminal work ‘Studies on Hysteria’ are still
relevant today. Initially there is a pair of lectures giving an introduction ‘Is Freud’s
book Studies on Hysteria still relevant?’ – Debate aimed at the general public. Chaired
by Dr Tim Nicholson (Institute of Psychiatry / Maudsley Hospital, London). Motion
proposed by Richard Kanaan (Professor of Neuropsychiatry, Melbourne University) & Stephanie Howlett (Psychotherapist, Sheffield, UK). Motion opposed by Mark Edwards
(Professor of Neurology, St George’s London) & Alan Carson (Senior Lecturer in
Neuropsychiatry, Edinburgh University).

Public engagement event at the Freud Museum London & funded by the UK National
Institute of Health Research, to inform the general public about Hysteria – now known as
conversion disorder or functional neurological disorder – and assess if Freud’s
theories, specifically those in his seminal work ‘Studies on Hysteria’ are still
relevant today. Initially there is a pair of lectures giving an introduction ‘Is Freud’s
book Studies on Hysteria still relevant?’ – Debate aimed at the general public. Chaired
by Dr Tim Nicholson (Institute of Psychiatry / Maudsley Hospital, London). Motion
proposed by Richard Kanaan (Professor of Neuropsychiatry, Melbourne University) & Stephanie Howlett (Psychotherapist, Sheffield, UK). Motion opposed by Mark Edwards
(Professor of Neurology, St George’s London) & Alan Carson (Senior Lecturer in
Neuropsychiatry, Edinburgh University).

In 1930, Freud gave his permission to psychologist Yaekichi Yabe for the
setting up of a Tokyo Branch of the IPA and he opened in Tokyo, the Psychoanalytic House
operated by the Japan Branch of the IPA. In 1933, Freud also granted his authorization
to psychiatrist Kiyoyasu Marui to establish the Sendai Branch of the IPA.

In 1955, psychiatrist Heisaku Kosawa integrated the IPA branches to form the
Japan Branch of the IPA, and founded Japan Psychoanalytic Society (JPS) as only
psychoanalytic organization, authorized by IPA and JPS has been playing a leading role
in Japan’s psychoanalysis.

JPS’s activities include setting up of a course for certifying psychoanalytic
psychotherapists as the Society’s original qualification and relevant stipulated
training method in compliance with IPA’s regulations and active international exchange
by a large number of mid-career and young psychoanalysts, in addition to psychoanalytic
study and psychoanalytic clinical practice, which has been the purpose of JPS.

Drawing on Melanie Klein’s writings and clinical examples from their own practice, Edna
O’Shaughnessy and Ron Britton talk about Klein’s original approach to psychoanalytic
thinking. They discuss Klein’s beginnings in the world of psychoanalysis, the influence
of Abrahams and Ferenczi on her thinking and her pioneering use of play as a way of
gaining insight into the inner world of young children. Topics covered include Klein’s
recognition of anxiety, guilt and reparation as central to analytic thinking, her
development of concepts such as the depressive position and projective identification,
and her emphasis on the ubiquity of unconscious phantasy in people’s daily lives.

'New York novelist and essayist Siri Hustvedt in conversation with Professor Marianne
Leuzinger-Bohleber in the Blaue Saal of Kassel’s Kongress Palais in front of an audience
of around 450. Hustvedt reads from her novel “The Blazing World”, which was published in
Germany in April 2015 as “Die gleißende Welt“. The German translation of the read
passages is projected onto the screen behind her. Subsequently, the author talks about
the relationship between literature and psychoanalysis, as part of the annual spring
meeting of the German Psychoanalytical Society (Deutsche Psychoanalytische
Vereinigung)..

This seventeen minute documentary film, made for educational purposes, shows local clinicians
describing their personal and professional experiences during and after Hurricane
Katrina. Drs. Boulanger and Taylor offer commentaries. .

Ten prominent members of the Israel Psychoanalytic Society, representing different
“generations” of psychoanalytic training, share memories, experiences and observations
from their days of training at the institute. Expressing their personal views of the
Israel Psychoanalytic Society today, its evolution over the years (thus enabling an
historical perspective of its evolving organizational culture), the “political” controversies between its members, and its involvement in the country’s social and
political life. Also - they relate to their own personal ties with psychoanalysis.

Professor Perry G. Mehrling of Columbia University and the Institute of New Economic Thinking talks to David Tuckett, Professor of Psychoanalysis at University College London, about his Emotional Finance project where he uses standard sociological interviewing techniques to investigate a series of leading fund managers to find out how they made decisions to buy, hold or sell assets. He says that because future values are fundamentally uncertain financial markets cannot be driven by calculation of economic fundamentals alone — instead, they are driven by stories about those fundamentals, created through skill and imagination. Based on these interviews David Tuckett merges insights from Keynes, from sociology, and from psychoanalysis to develop what he calls emotional finance – this is new economic thinking.

Insights in Psychoanalysis is a series of films produced by PEP in association with the
Psychoanalysis Unit at University College London. In each film an eminent analyst
discusses one of their most important and influential papers. Interviewees to date have
included Warren S. Poland, Otto F. Kernberg, Stefano Bolognini, Ron Britton, Irma
Brenman Pick, Peter Fonagy, Edna O'Shaughnessy, Virginia Ungar and David Bell. This
overview film includes excerpts from 29 of the interviews filmed so far.

Kerry Kelly Novick and Jack Novick present their view of sadomasochism as a relational
phenomenon with multiple determinants, importantly including painful experiences in
early attachment relationships. They discuss their research on beating fantasies and the
significance of such fantasies in individuals who develop a sadomasochistic way of
functioning. They consider the challenges of working clinically with these problems and
introduce their dual track model of development, which enables the clinician to
conceptualise the aim of treating such patients as moving them from a closed system way
of functioning to an open system way of functioning.

Rosine Jozef Perelberg traces the clinical and theoretical journey that led her to the
formulations presented in this paper. Perelberg distinguishes between the murdered
father configuration (when the individual cannot conceive of the role of the father in
the primal scene) and the dead, symbolicfather. The phantasy of “a father is being beaten” may frequently be found in the analysis of some male patients at the point of
transition between these two configurations – that is, from the murdered father to the
dead father. Perelberg discusses the connections of this line of thinking with Freud’s
progressive discovery of the paternal function in the body of his work, and outlines
some of the reasons for the relative neglect of the paternal function within the British
psychoanalytic tradition.

Rudi Vermote explains how he became interested in W. R. Bion’s later work and discusses
some of the reasons for the relative lack of attention to Bion’s later writings. He
discusses his understanding of the implications of Bion’s shift from emphasizing
transformations in knowledge to focusing on what he described as transformations in O.
He considers some related psychoanalytic concepts and reflects on the implications of
the development in Bion’s thinking for clinical practice.

Joseph D. Lichtenberg outlines his theory of the five motivational systems involved in
the processes of listening, understanding and interpreting in an analytic exchange and
explains why he prefers this way of conceptualizing the analytic encounter to thinking in terms of a structural model. He discusses the place of other classical concepts such
as defence and resistance in his theory. He gives an example of the phenomenon he has
named a disciplined spontaneous engagement and discusses its relationship with the
concept of enactment.

Virginia Ungar discusses the shift she perceives in her own technique and in analytic
technique more generally in the way interpretation is used. She describes a move from a
more active and assertive approach to a greater emphasis on observation and description.
She highlights the role that the practice of infant observation can play in facilitating
the capacity to observe, and identifies some of the obstacles to being able to wait and
allow meaning to emerge without trying to force it.

Andrew Gerber argues the case for empirical research in psychoanalysis and explains how
he came to create a rating scale designed specifically to measure the quality of
randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of psychotherapy. He discusses some of the issues
that had to be considered in creating the scale and gives an overview of the quality of
the studies to which the scale was applied. He outlines some of the limitations of RCTs
and gives his view of the reasons for the reluctance on the part of many therapists to
attempt to measure treatment adherence.

Ron Britton discusses the models that exist in the mind of the patient and in the mind of
the analyst and explores the related concepts of the belief function, the xenocidal
impulse and identification, touching on their roots in normal development as well as
their pathological aspects. He also gives an insight into some of his philosophical and
literary influences and shows how ideas in philosophy, literature and theology
prefigured many current psychoanalytic concepts.

David Bell discusses the critical contribution that psychoanalysis can make to
understanding postmodernity. Drawing on the work of Fredric Jameson, he characterises
postmodernism as the cultural logic of late capitalism and offers a psychoanalytic
re-evaluation of the concepts of truth and freedom.

David Taylor highlights some of the unique features of the Tavistock Adult Depression Study and presents an overview of the results. He discusses the challenges and rewards
of conducting empirical research on psychoanalytic treatments and describes how he found
an approach to the task of writing the treatment manual for the study that allowed him
to avoid becoming reductive or prescriptive.

Stefano Bolognini discusses his concept of interpsychic activity and differentiates the
interpsychic from the intersubjective on one hand and the interpersonal on the other. He
underlines the role of the interpsychic dimension in developing a person’s subjectivity and also considers interpsychic activity in an analyst’s relationship with other
analysts and their ideas..

Edna O’Shaughnessy discusses the particular nature of the evidence that psychoanalysis makes available. She argues that the peculiar kind of conversation that takes place in
psychoanalysis yields clinical facts that can provide us with evidence about psychic
reality. She highlights the distinction between a truth claim and a claim of
infallibility and discusses the relationship of the concept of the clinical fact to
Bion’s concept of the selected fact.

Lawrence J. Brown suggests that Bion’s theoretical ideas can be understood as a particular form of ego psychology, and discusses their utility in overcoming the dichotomy between ego psychology and relational psychoanalysis. He explains his concept of reverie deprivation, derived from Bion and Ogden, and shows how it illuminated a difficulty in his work with a particular patient and enabled patient and analyst to work together to overcome it.

Frank Yeomans explains the origins and main principles of Transference Focused
Psychotherapy, and considers its similarities with and differences from Kleinian
psychoanalysis on one hand and classical ego psychological psychoanalysis on the other.
He discusses some of the reasons for resistance to the manualization of psychoanalytic
psychotherapies and highlights some of the benefits of the process of manualization.
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Mary Target introduces the developmental model of psychosexuality based on early affectmirroring that she developed with Peter Fonagy. She explains the need for this model
with reference to the limitations of contemporary psychoanalytic models of sexuality and
shows how it can assist the analyst in thinking about the sexual feelings that may arise
in the course of analysis, including sexual feelings towards the analyst.

Irma Brenman Pick speaks about the sources of inspiration for her 1985 paper ‘Working
through in the Countertransference’. She describes some significant moments in her
personal experience that helped her to think about how the analyst might use his or her
experience of difficult countertransference feelings in a constructive way and discusses
the importance of the analyst’s authenticity in his or her work.

One doesn’t heal from war; one learns to surrender to its complicated traumatic impact.
As veterans struggle with their losses, they have found ways to address and work through
the moral injury and PTS with which they contend. They witness their losses via
engagement in community activism, memorializing rituals, and acts of artistic and poetic
creation. The Mourning After, a sequel to the award-winning documentary, Leave No
Soldier, follows the efforts of some veterans to transform themselves and their
communities from bystanders to attuned witnesses of the consequences of war. A
round-table discussion by senior psychoanalysts, experts in the dynamics of traumatic
mourning, illuminates the therapeutic action embedded in these restorative and
redemptive activities. The Mourning After provides clinicians with a deeper
understanding of the mental health needs of our returning service personnel and their
families. It enriches contemporary psychoanalytic theories of catastrophic grief and
mourning.

Dr. Beatrice Beebe at the New York State Psychiatry Institute, Columbia University, has
been conducting frame-by-frame video microanalysis of mother-infant communication for
over 40 years. From just two-and-a-half minutes of second-by-second analysis of
face-to-face play at four months, Dr. Beebe can predict attachment style at one year.
Focusing on looking and looking away and using actual lab footage and interviews with
Dr. Beebe and her colleagues, this 34-minute documentary takes us into the work and
world of Dr. Beatrice Beebe.

Psychoanalysis in El Barrio shows the experience of Latino psychoanalysts in the United
States bringing psychoanalysis to Latino communities. It features interviews with ten
Latino analysts (whose heritage is from a variety of Latino cultures) as well as
students. It uniquely shows some of those communities in Philadelphia, New York City,
and Texas and Interviews Latinos in the street on their thoughts about therapy. And it
discusses issues of dulture, bias, language and transference that occur for Latino
analysts and their patients. The video challenges psychoanalysts to understand the
culture and economic circumstances of Latinos in the United States and to bring
psychoanalytically informed therapy to them. It Is a consequence of conferences held by
the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR) and the Clinical
Psychology Department of The New School.

Human beings have a mysterious source of passion, unconscious from our everyday experience.
Likewise, we have a guide within us, that helps us know what is good and right, as well
as what not to do. In Ego: The It Factor, Dr Heath takes us on a journey within
ourselves to discover these aspects, named by Sigmund Freud as the Id and Super-Ego.

How do our expectations color the way we see others? If we understand these expectations, we are able to understand ourselves, see our world more clearly, and free ourselves from the limits our expectations impose. In “A Book By Its Cover”, Dr Heath explores the way this affects an individual, and some of the reasons transference happens. Dr Heath also asks us to contemplate how projections and transference lead to such things as anxiety, shame, and even cultural effects like racism.

What does that dream mean? In Mind Your Mind, Episode 4: Dreams, Dr Heath explores the
depths of dream meaning. Does every dream represent a wish, in more or less disguised
form? Dr Heath approaches that question, and talks about the disguises and the wish. As
we go along on his journey, Dr Heath finds examples of dreams, and what they might
mean.

This video explores the controversial debate between Daniel Stern and Andre Green at a
conference on the 1st November 1997 at UCL, under the auspices of the Psychoanalysis unit. The video visually explores the different epistemological position presented by
the two speakers: On the one hand, that knowledge of psychic life may be gleaned from
infant observation; on the other, knowledge of the unconscious may only be known, après
coup, as afterwardsness, in an analysis. This video visually explores this debate and
concludes with a discussion by psychoanalysts who have been respondents to this
controversy in a formal capacity.

The unconscious is a source of passion and depth. But it is silly and funny. And it gets
us into all kinds of trouble. In Mind Your Mind episode 3, Road Rage, Dr Heath explores
the everyday issues of empathy, hate, mature reactions, and “defensive driving”. The
psychoanalytic concept of defence mechanism is explored, through the lens of an everyday
experience in urban driving. Our unconscious comes out in the way we act; pay attention and be entertained!

The unconscious is a source of passion and depth. But it is silly and funny. And it gets
us into all kinds of trouble. In Mind Your Mind Episode 2, Dr Heath explores what drives
us. It has to do with love, connection, and creativity. From the Psychoanalytic fields
of Drive Theory and Object Relations comes this adventure of discovery. Our unconscious comes out in the way we act; pay attention and be entertained!

The unconscious is a source of passion and depth. But it is silly and funny. And it gets
us into all kinds of trouble. In Mind Your Mind episode 1, The Unconscious, Dr Heath
takes us on an adventure of dreams, slips of the tongue, patriotism, and the dangers of
retail therapy. Our unconscious comes out in the way we act; pay attention and be
entertained!

Taking both its title and spirit from the ‘Controversial Discussions’ in the British
Psychoanalytic Society which took place in wartime London after the death of Freud,
‘Controversial Discussions for the XXI Century’ looks at the history and legacy of the
discussions regarded by Andre Green as ‘the most important document of the history of
psychoanalysis’. Bringing up to date the original ‘Discussions’, the film examines
contemporary understanding of ‘unconsciousfantasy’ by leading Freudian and Kleinian
psychoanalytic thinkers to examine areas of controversy and disagreement and bring the
debate up to date in the light of recent advances in developmental psychology and
neuroscience and promote the use of pep-web as a platform for dialogue across
modalities.

This film comprises material from the IPTAR hosted Black Psychoanalysts Speak Conference
of 2012, and the IPTAR and The William Alanson White Institute hosted Black
Psychoanalysts Speak Conference in 2013, also hosted by the Clinical Psychology Department of the New School for Social Research (with the support of NYU Post Doctoral
Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis). The film features interviews of the eleven
Black psychoanalysts who participated in the conferences as well as two other
participants. The film is intended to raise awareness of the need for greater openness
and understanding of cultural and ethnic pressures in psychoanalytic training, in
transferential and countertransferential interactions, and in the recruitment of people
of coulour into psychoanalytic training.

These participants contend that psychoanalysis has a long history as a progressive
movement devoted to the common good. Psychoanalysis asks us to examine the processes of
self deception that perpetuate both individual unhappiness and social structures that
are inequitable and oppressive. Yet psychoanalytic education has for the most part
focused on training and treating the relatively privileged. The Black psychoanalysts
here examine this dilemma and engage in a vibrant and thought provoking discussion about
race, culture, class and the unrealized promise of psychoanalysis.

A selection of short interviews with Michael Brearley, Josh Cohen, Catalina Bronstein and Caroline Polmear from the British Society about what it is like to train as a psychoanalyst at the Institute of Psychoanalysis in London and the place of UK psychoanalysis in the modern world. The Institute has been one of the oldest and longest established centres of psychoanalysis since before Freud emigrated to London at the beginning of the last century to avoid Nazi persecutions shortly before his death. The interviews also look at the strong tradition in the British Society of people from varied and often non-clinical backgrounds coming to train as analysts and the benefits the different kinds of experience can provide.

Ron Britton discusses his entry into psychoanalysis, the psychoanalytical landscape back in 1970 when that happened and his training at the Tavistock Clinic and the British Institute. He also discusses the combination of art and science in psychoanalysis, redundant theories and the repetitiveness of nature. Britton takes questions from an audience on the whether the different theoretical models in psychoanalysis can influence the outcome of treatment, the future of psychoanalysis and the different attitudes and working of psychoanalysts in the UK compared to elsewhere. He also talks about how his own work as a psychoanalyst may have affected his personal life and his family.

Mentalizing refers to our ability to attend to mental states in ourselves and in others as we
attempt to understand our own actions and those of others on the basis of intentional
mental states. A focus on this very human activity as a therapeutic intervention forms
the core of mentalization based treatment (MBT). MBT was initially developed for the
treatment of borderline personality disorder (BPD) although it is now being used on a
wide range of disorders.

Argentinian psychoanalyst Dr Horacio Etchegoyen (1919-2016) is considered one of the most
important psychoanalytic teachers and thinkers to have come out of Latin America, and
had a significant impact on psychoanalysis there and around the world. In this film he
talks to psychoanalysts Virginia Ungar (of the Buenos Aires Psychoanalytic Association)
and Catalina Bronstein (of the British Psychoanalytical Society) about the development of his interest in psychoanalysis and in Kleinian thought in particular, the influence
of key figures such as Enrique Pichon Riviere, Heinrich Racker and Donald Meltzer, and
his development and teaching of key psychoanalytic concepts including envy and early
transference.

Salman Akhtar shares some of the personal experiences that led him to write about the
impact of immigration on identity and on the psychoanalytic process. He gives examples
of certain situations that may need to be handled slightly differently if the patient is
an immigrant. He discusses some of the issues that need to be considered when working
with a patient who is not speaking their mother tongue. He also emphasises the
significance of the loss of the physical qualities of the mother country which serve a
containing function.

Francis D. Baudry discusses the lack of literature on the supervisory process and the
general lack of awareness of the unconscious dynamics involved. He describes the
different levels of communication that can take place and reflects on the often-cited
but poorly understood phenomenon commonly referred to as the parallel process. He
outlines some principles that can help supervisors to refrain from engaging in wild
analysis and discusses the reasons why work on the supervisory relationship can
sometimes get a treatment that is stuck moving again.

Judy Kantrowitz describes her research on the patient-analyst match and the initial
rather hostile reception her ideas received. She discusses the sea change in analytic
culture that eventually led to greater openness to viewing the analytic relationship as
a two-person enterprise. She shows how, while a close match between analyst and patient
can be an impediment to progress, this need not always be the case if the analyst can be
helped to become aware of it, and the intervention of the external observer may also
facilitate growth in the analyst if handled sensitively.

Nancy Kulish discusses the problems that passion can cause for both analysts and
patients. She relates passionate feelings to the Oedipal situation and suggests that a
degree of unforgetting of Oedipal passion is necessary both in order to take pleasure in
life and to work empathically and sensitively as an analyst. She also considers some of
the reasons for the historical neglect and misrepresentation of female sexuality in
particular.

Warren S. Poland describes the origins of his concept of witnessing, situating its
emergence in the context of the shift from one to two person psychology with the rise of
relational psychoanalysis. He discusses the challenge of staying close to the patient’s
experience without retreating behind a conceptual barrier and considers witnessing in
relation to the concepts of neutrality, holding and containment. He explains how the
experience of witnessing can facilitate the development of the patient’s capacity to
know him- or herself.

This documentary tells the story of the first four Peruvian psychoanalysts:
Saúl Peña, Carlos Crisanto, Max Hernández and Moisés Lemlij. They went to London to do
the psychoanalytic training at the middle 60´s. There they were in contact with key
figures of psychoanalysis such as Anna Freud, Donald Winnicott, John Bowlby, Marion
Milner, Joseph Sandler, Hanna Segal, Paula Heimann and many others, they became their
analysts, teachers and supervisors. After completing their training, some of them stayed
working as analyst for some years, but eventually they all return to Peru and developed
the psychoanalytic movement there. With much effort they succeeded and founded the
Peruvian Psychoanalytic Society in 1980, which till this day is the leading institution
in Peruvian psychoanalysis.